Pakistan should accept that its decades of meddling in Afghanistan have not redounded to its benefit.

Taliban militants patrol the streets of Kabul. The recent ISKP attack in the Afghan capital laid bare Taliban’s limited capacity to provide security and added to the uncertainty surrounding ...

Our correspondents discuss the challenges of Mexico’s war on drug cartels. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. The ...

Pakistan bombed major Afghan cities including the capital Kabul in late February 2026 in what officials described as a major escalation after months of tit-for-tat violence, but a video supposedly ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has rejected U.S. allegations that it detains foreigners to obtain leverage over other countries. The government says that Afghan authorities arrest people ...

In a 40-year career that brought him two Pulitzers, he reported from trouble spots around the world, eloquently conveying the ...

Afghanistan says it has thwarted an attempted Pakistani airstrike on Bagram Air Base. The former U.S. military base is north of Kabul. Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan is at ...

Home Office figures published today reveal there were 30,657 being accommodated in asylum hotels at the end of 2025 - a 19% ...

The State Department has designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention as the U.S. ambassador to the United ...

In his latest newsletter, Simon Calder shares his journey from Yogyakarta to London amid Gulf tensions, reflecting on ...

Hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers scrambled to make new connections and get through to airlines on jammed phone ...

Protesters opposed to the housing of asylum seekers at a military site in East Sussex have continued to demonstrate. People ...